International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements and Third World Resistance
Balakrishnan Rajagopal's fundamental critique of modern international law draws attention to traditional Third World engagements. Rajagopal challenges current approaches to international law and politics either through states or through individuals. With transnational and local social movement action now becoming increasingly visible and important--as witnessed in Seattle in 1999, he demonstrates that a new global order must consider seriously the resistance of social movements in the...
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This analysis of international law using social movement theory provides a fundamental critique of international law.
AbbreviationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Pt. IInternational law, development, and Third World resistance71Writing Third World resistance into international law 92International law and the development encounter24Pt. IIInternational law, Third World resistance, and the institutionalization of development: the invention of the apparatus373Laying the groundwork: the Mandate system504Radicalizing institutions and/or institutionalizing radicalism? UNCTAD and the NIEO debate735From resistance to renewal: Bretton Woods institutions and the emergence of the "new" development agenda956Completing a full circle: democracy and the discontent of development135Pt. IIIDecolonizing resistance: human rights and the challenge of social movements1637Human rights and the Third World: constituting the discourse of resistance1718Recoding resistance: social movements and the challenge to international law2339Markets, gender and identity: a case study of the Working Women's Forum as a social movement272Pt. IVEpilogue289References297Index330
\ From the Publisher"Important reading for members of social movements who hopefully will be inspired to create their own narrative about reshaping international law from below." Voluntas\ \
